Chapter 48 Unable to Control One's Feelings

A low chuckle sounded in her ear.

"Ji Xiaonuan, do you think your resistance would be useful if I really wanted to do something to you?" he asked softly.

Ji Xiaonuan suddenly felt a bit annoyed. Chi Jun'an was actually teasing her on purpose.

"Um..." Ji Xiaonuan said with some hesitation. She wanted to say something but held back.

"Don't think too much," Chi Jun'an said in a low voice. "Leave the other matters to me."

Ji Xiaonuan looked at him in surprise. She hadn't said anything, yet he already knew what she wanted to say?

Well, Chi Jun'an had come to find her so late at night, so naturally, he already knew what had happened.

"Go to sleep early," Chi Jun'an gently rubbed her head.

Ji Xiaonuan looked at him resentfully. Why was he rubbing her head? She wasn't a child.

After he left, Ji Xiaonuan wrapped herself in the quilt and rolled around on the bed, feeling both shy and annoyed.

How could she have kissed Chi Jun'an just now!

Ji Xiaonuan reached out and touched her burning cheeks. Her heart was still beating rapidly. She suddenly realized that she didn't have no feelings for Chi Jun'an. She could find all kinds of reasons to deceive him, but she couldn't deceive her own heart.

From the very beginning, Ji Xiaonuan had thought he was dangerous and instinctively wanted to stay away from him. But now she understood that that "dangerous" feeling was because he was too attractive, and she was afraid that if she got close to him, she would involuntarily develop feelings for him.

She had never felt this way about anyone else before, so this unfamiliar feeling of being attracted made her scared.

Thinking about it now, she realized that she had been rather ridiculous before.

However... what were Chi Jun'an's feelings for her?

Ji Xiaonuan felt a bit confused for no reason.

If he only regarded her as one of the selected surrogate mothers, after such a thing happened, Chi Jun'an should have played it safe and drawn a clear line with her.

But he came to find her immediately and brought her back to the Chi family mansion, as if he wasn't afraid of being discovered at all.

Forget it. She didn't want to think about it anymore.

After all the折腾 (tossing and turning) until so late, Ji Xiaonuan was already extremely tired, and she fell asleep in a drowsy state.

When she woke up in the morning, Ji Xiaonuan found a complete set of clean clothes placed by the bed.

In addition to the clothes, there were also her phone, ID documents, and other items.

Had Chi Jun'an prepared all these? Did he specially bring her things here? She quickly picked up her phone. She didn't know how things about her had developed.

After opening her phone and browsing through it, Ji Xiaonuan's heart felt heavy.

She roughly understood the course of events, but some things were beyond her expectations.

She was being severely slandered on the Internet, mainly because of several photos.

When she was in Chi Jun'an's car, Han Siyuan's car, An Ziyu's car, and Ling Yifeng's car, she had actually been secretly photographed.

The cars were different each time, but all of them were very expensive, and people were convinced that she was being kept by others.

Coupled with the fact that the posts on the school forum had been dug up, and Li Mengxue had slandered her again using the identity of an anonymous whistleblower, people naturally believed that she had done something fishy during the surrogacy preliminary selection.

Now, even her school had let out the news that they were going to expel her as a warning to others.

Although this matter made Ji Xiaonuan a bit sad, it wasn't too unexpected.

What surprised her was that now all the blame was directed at Chi Jun'an.

The media even claimed with certainty that there was something fishy about the surrogacy selection event, and the news was said to have come from within the Chi Group. This made the news seem more credible.

The Chi Group had remained silent about this matter, and everyone was eagerly demanding an explanation from him. Even the Chi Group's stock had been affected by this incident.

How could this news have come from within the Chi Group? Ji Xiaonuan couldn't help frowning, finding it hard to understand.

How was Chi Jun'an going to deal with this matter?

After washing up, she walked out of the room and was about to go find him.

"Miss Ji, you're awake?" Outside the door, Aunt Zhang looked at her with a loving expression.

"Aunt Zhang, you can just call me Xiaoxi. Calling me Miss Ji makes me feel like an outsider," Ji Xiaonuan said with a faint smile.

"Okay, Xiaoxi," Aunt Zhang asked, "I'll prepare breakfast for you right away. What would you like to eat?"

"Don't bother. I'm not very hungry," Ji Xiaonuan asked. "Where's Chi Jun'an? Where is he?"

"The master is in the study. You can go and find him," Aunt Zhang said with a smile. "I'll go downstairs and prepare something for you to eat. You can't skip breakfast."

With that, Aunt Zhang happily went downstairs.

Ji Xiaonuan felt a bit embarrassed. At least she should have told her where the study was first.

Forget it. She would find it herself.

Ji Xiaonuan came to a nearby room and pushed the door open.

The door was locked. Ji Xiaonuan was a bit surprised. Her imagination ran wild. Was there something secret inside?

"What are you doing?" Chi Jun'an's voice came from behind her.

Ji Xiaonuan was leaning against the door. When she heard his voice, she was so scared that she quickly turned around. Like a child who had been caught doing something wrong, she said guiltily, "I'm looking for the study."

"What do you want to do in the study?" he asked.

"…Looking for you," Ji Xiaonuan said speechlessly.

Chi Jun'an smiled faintly. He asked gently, "How's your foot injury?"

Ji Xiaonuan was slightly taken aback. She shook her head and said, "It's already better."

If Chi Jun'an hadn't mentioned it, she would have already forgotten about it. She didn't expect that he still remembered her injury. Ji Xiaonuan felt a warm feeling in her heart for no reason.

Do you want to go in and take a look?" Chi Jun'an's eyes darkened slightly.

"Ah?" Ji Xiaonuan looked back at the closed door and quickly shook her head. "No need."

Just now, she was just curious because the door was locked. She wasn't the kind of person who liked to pry into other people's privacy.

However, Chi Jun'an seemed not to have heard her. With a deep look in his eyes, he opened the door. "Come in."

Ji Xiaonuan walked in a bit awkwardly.

The room was very clean and obviously cleaned regularly. It was also decorated in a warm and simple style, making people feel very comfortable.

Ji Xiaonuan's gaze fell on the table, on which there was a group photo.

In the photo was a young man and a woman snuggling up to each other and smiling happily. Moreover, for some reason, Ji Xiaonuan always felt that the two people in the photo looked very familiar.

"This is..." Ji Xiaonuan couldn't help picking up the photo.

"My parents. This was taken when they were young," Chi Jun'an said with a deep look in his eyes as he looked at her.

"They must have loved each other very much," Ji Xiaonuan said with a faint smile. "Then where are they now?"

"They passed away several years ago," Chi Jun'an said with a sad expression.

"Sorry..." Ji Xiaonuan put the photo down awkwardly.

"It doesn't matter. You didn't know," Chi Jun'an said indifferently. "Did you come to find me for something?"

"Yeah," Ji Xiaonuan couldn't help frowning. "It seems that my matter has also implicated you. They're all saying that there's something fishy about this surrogacy selection event... How are you going to solve it?"